Lance R. Vick (@lrvick@mastodon.social)
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It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device. It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical. Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this? I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.
  • @coffeeCleanOP
    2•2 months ago

    Thanks for digging into the problem. So in the end, it looks like you’ve worked it out that the content is getting archived but it’s just not rendering, correct? It used to render. Apparently the Mastodon JavaScript got too fancy and broke the use of archival.

    I wondered at first if Mastodon was deliberately archive-hostile. The sensible ways to block archival are host-specific¹, so I guess it’s still unclear.

    ¹ (for lack of better phrasing… I don’t mean to imply it’s sensible to block archival to begin with)

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
      2•2 months ago

      It really is a shame the archived version isn’t rendering, as it really does need to be archived. It’s really shitty of any medical provider to reject patients based on not owning a smartphone.